more dbt-2 results hyperthreading on linux-2.6.0-test11

From: markw(at)osdl(dot)org
To: piggin(at)cyberone(dot)com(dot)au
Cc: mingo(at)redhat(dot)com, linux-kernel(at)vger(dot)kernel(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: more dbt-2 results hyperthreading on linux-2.6.0-test11
Date: 2003-12-12 22:28:21
Message-ID: 200312122228.hBCMSOZ28974@mail.osdl.org
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Hi Nick,

Here are the results of the comparisons I said I would do.

no-hyperthreading:
http://developer.osdl.org/markw/dbt2-pgsql/282/
- metric 2288.43
- baseline

hyperthreading:
http://developer.osdl.org/markw/dbt2-pgsql/278/
- metric 1944.42
- 15% throughput decrease

hyperthreading w/ Ingo's C1 patch:
http://developer.osdl.org/markw/dbt2-pgsql/277/
- metric 1978.39
- 13.5% throughput decrease

hyperthreading w/ Nick's w26 patch:
http://developer.osdl.org/markw/dbt2-pgsql/274/
- metric 1955.91
- 14.5% throughput decrease

It looks like there is some marginal benefit to your or Ingo's patches
with a workload like DBT-2. I probably don't understand enough about
hyperthreading, but I wonder if there's something PostgreSQL can do to
take advantage of hyperthreading

Anyway, each link has pointers to readprofile and annotated oprofile
assembly output (if you find that useful.) I haven't done enough tests
to have an idea of the error margin, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's
at least 1%.

Let me know if there's anything else you'd like me to try.

Thanks,
Mark

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